Andrej Karpathy
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Andrej Karpathy: LLMs are now a programmable layer for digital work
Andrej Karpathy discussed a significant shift in programming, where Large Language Models (LLMs) are evolving beyond simple chatbots to become a new programmable layer for digital tasks. He highlighted December 2025 as …
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AI Psychosis: Leaders Obsessed with Agents Create Illusion of Productivity
A growing number of tech leaders and venture capitalists are exhibiting "AI psychosis," characterized by obsessive engagement with AI tools and agent workflows that yield minimal tangible results. This phenomenon is fue…
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Karpathy's Auto-Architecture tool hunts vulnerabilities on GitHub
A humorous post on Mastodon discusses the concept of "Auto-Architecture" in the context of AI code generation, referencing Andrej Karpathy's work and GitHub's code. The author uses the metaphor of a "vulnerability roule…
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AI research loop optimizes CPU architecture, boosting performance by 92%
An autonomous research loop, inspired by Andrej Karpathy's work, was adapted to optimize a CPU's microarchitecture. The system proposed, implemented, and evaluated hypotheses for a SystemVerilog CPU core, achieving sign…
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AI models see tool-calling improvements and bug fixes
A new tool has been developed that addresses a need identified by Andrej Karpathy, with its creation reportedly taking only 48 hours. Separately, a bug affecting DeepSeek V4's output in the SGLang open-source inference …
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Musk v. OpenAI trial: Accusations fly over nonprofit mission, recruitment attempts, and model distillation
During the ongoing Musk v. OpenAI trial, new evidence has emerged regarding Elon Musk's past attempts to recruit OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, to Tesla and his alleged efforts to gain control of OpenAI. Emails presented in …
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Interactive guide explains how large language models like ChatGPT are built
A new interactive visual guide, based on Andrej Karpathy's lecture, explains the intricate process of building large language models. It details the journey from collecting vast amounts of internet text to the final sta…
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Data scientists' core skills are essential for AI harness engineering and evaluation
The role of data scientists is evolving with the rise of large language models, shifting from direct model training to a focus on the "harness" that guides AI systems. While foundation model APIs reduce the need for tra…
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Agentic Engineering: WTF Happened in December 2025?
Perplexity has launched "Computer," an orchestration-first agent product designed to research, design, code, and deploy projects by managing files, tools, and models. This system utilizes parallel, asynchronous sub-agen…
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Sequoia Capital backs Flapping Airplanes' data-efficient AI research lab
Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital has invested in Flapping Airplanes, a startup aiming to develop data-efficient AI models. The company, founded by brothers Ben and Asher Spector along with Aidan Smith, focuses on at…
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Andrej Karpathy shares his guide to chemical hygiene for healthier living
Andrej Karpathy has published a guide on "chemical hygiene," focusing on improving the quality of water and air in one's home. He recommends using Reverse Osmosis filtration for drinking water and whole-home filters for…
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Andrej Karpathy uses Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 to auto-grade Hacker News discussions
Andrej Karpathy has developed a tool that uses an LLM to analyze historical Hacker News discussions from a decade ago. By feeding article content and comment threads into a model like Opus 4.5, the system can evaluate t…
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Karpathy: AI intelligence optimization differs fundamentally from animal intelligence
Andrej Karpathy argues that animal intelligence and current AI, particularly LLMs, are shaped by fundamentally different optimization pressures. Animal intelligence evolved for survival in a physical, social world, driv…
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Karpathy: Verifiability is key to AI automation in Software 2.0
Andrej Karpathy posits that AI represents a new computing paradigm, analogous to the advent of computing itself. He distinguishes between "Software 1.0," which automates tasks that can be precisely specified, and "Softw…
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Thinking Machines launches Tinker, simplifying LLM fine-tuning for researchers
Thinking Machines has launched Tinker, a platform designed to simplify the process of fine-tuning language models for researchers and developers. The tool offers abstractions for writing experiments and managing distrib…
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Andrej Karpathy discusses Sutton's critique of LLMs as not 'bitter lesson pilled'
Andrej Karpathy discusses a podcast featuring Geoffrey Hinton, who questions the widely held belief that Large Language Models (LLMs) fully embody his "Bitter Lesson" principle. Hinton argues that LLMs rely heavily on f…
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Vibe coding MenuGen
Andrej Karpathy has developed MenuGen, a web application that generates images for menu items based on a photo of the menu. This tool aims to help users understand unfamiliar dishes by providing visual context. Karpathy…
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Finding the Best Sleep Tracker
Andrej Karpathy conducted a two-month experiment to compare four sleep tracking devices: Oura, Whoop, 8Sleep, and Apple Watch with AutoSleep. He found Oura and Whoop to be the most accurate and consistent, providing sim…
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Andrej Karpathy shares his simple 'append-and-review' note-taking method
Andrej Karpathy has developed a personal note-taking system called the "append-and-review" method. This approach involves maintaining a single, continuously growing text file where new thoughts and tasks are added to th…
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Julia's Micrograd.jl series explores automatic differentiation for ML
This article introduces Micrograd.jl, a new automatic differentiation package for the Julia programming language. It aims to fill a gap in comprehensive tutorials for AD in Julia, requiring a solid understanding of both…